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Tag: Hope

After Disruption

If you happen to visit Berlin it would be well worth looking out for the Chapel of Reconciliation on Bernaeur … More

Christianity, Church life, Disruption, Hope, Ukraine

An inherited garden (a ministry parable)

We recently moved to a new home and, given how much outdoor spaces are now being used for entertaining, we … More

Christianity, Hope, Local Church, Ministry, Mission, Pastoral Ministry

Even this, Lord Jesus?

Ours is a hyperbolic age, a time when words have become a devalued currency, where sentiment often masks a lack … More

Christ Jesus, Christianity, Empathy, Hope

Will the plague come near to our door?

The first Lord’s Day since the Covid-19 Coronavirus began to reach our shores has passed. In most fellowships in the … More

Christianity, Coronavirus, Hope, Psalms, Suffering

10 Thoughts in the wake of the Jarrid Wilson Tragedy

The news is becoming horribly familiar – a pastor who has been used of God, who has even counselled and … More

Care, Christianity, Eldership, Hope, Jarrid Wilson, Ministry, Pain, Pastoral Ministry, Suicide

No pang shall be mine?

John Wesley famously summarised the final outworking of the gospel in the hearts of those within early Methodism with the … More

Bereavement, death, eschatology, Grief, Hope

Hope and holidays

If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work; But when they seldom … More

Heaven, Holiday, Hope, Rest, Restlessness, Vacation

Review: After Life by Ricky Gervais

The creative output of comedian, writer, director and actor Ricky Gervais is always worthy of some consideration. His past successes … More

Comedy, Culture, death, Hope, meaning, postmodernism, Ricky Gervais, Television, truth

Burial matters

These days I’m reading, thinking, and preaching a lot about heaven. This comes as a culmination of some preaching I … More

Burial, Christianity, death, Hope, Resurrection

Hope by any other name

The etymology of words seldom brings us hope. If sentences and paragraphs, properly constructed and carefully concocted, are slender means … More

C.S. Lewis, Christianity, Hope, Poems, Poetry
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